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Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

With faces like dead lovers who died true. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Silence sweeter is than speech. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I have seen many a face that was more good-looking - never one that looked half so good. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port
heaven,
Friend, what years could us divide? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind
and that is as much in our hands as theirs
is the right of having something to do. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Alack, this world
Is full of change, change, change
nothing but change! — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The housekeeper, Mrs Craik, came — Kate Saunders

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We are so scornful when we are young! — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It is not work that kills, but "worry." — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest,
When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Autumn
Into earth's lap does throw
Brown apples gay in a game of play,
As the equinoctials blow. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A secret at home is like rocks under tide. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

To-morrow is ah, whose? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one; — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Many true words are spoken in jest. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There was never a night that had no morn. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination. — Helen Craik

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It is the Christmas time:
And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik